{"id":8,"date":"2009-02-09T20:20:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fineeyewear.net\/wordpress\/?p=8"},"modified":"2009-02-09T20:20:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T17:20:13","slug":"essilor-remains-primary-lens-supplier-to-luxottica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fineeyewear.net\/wordpress\/archives\/8","title":{"rendered":"Essilor remains primary lens supplier to Luxottica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"dnn_ctr775_VMContent_lblContent\"><span id=\"dnn_ctr775_VMContent_lblContent\">MILAN\u2014Luxottica Group (NYSE: LUX) is using synergies from its November 2007 acquisition of Oakley to bring more of its sunwear lens production under its own umbrella, Andrea Guerra, Luxottica\u2019s chief executive officer, revealed last week.<\/p>\n<p>During a conference call with financial analysts, Guerra said that although Essilor remains its primary lens supplier, Luxottica is currently finalizing a new strategy to manufacture its own polarized lenses. At the same time, Oakley is now \u201cin-sourcing\u201d some sun lenses it had previously purchased from outside suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now manufacture almost 90 percent of our plano sun lenses, while in 2008 we bought about 30 percent of our needs,\u201d Guerra said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, last week Luxottica Optical Manufacturing announced plans to consolidate two lens manufacturing labs in Knoxville, Ky., effective April 4, with a resulting loss of 76 positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to consolidate the two facilities was based on careful evaluation of how to best serve customers while maximizing resources across the organization,\u201d a Luxottica announcement said. \u201cThe company will provide support programs to help affected associates through this transition.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN\u2014Luxottica Group (NYSE: LUX) is using synergies from its November 2007 acquisition of Oakley to bring more of its sunwear lens production under its own umbrella, Andrea Guerra, Luxottica\u2019s chief executive officer, revealed last week. During a conference call with financial analysts, Guerra said that although Essilor remains its primary lens supplier, Luxottica is currently &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fineeyewear.net\/wordpress\/archives\/8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Essilor remains primary lens supplier to Luxottica<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion-eyewear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fineeyewear.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fineeyewear.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fineeyewear.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fineeyewear.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fineeyewear.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fineeyewear.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"http:\/\/fineeyewear.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fineeyewear.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fineeyewear.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fineeyewear.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}